Counselling Children in a Community Setting

In the world of counselling, using effective techniques and skills in reckoning the behaviour of a person is critical. This will serve as the data track that will break through the natural barriers of the human mind. Like adults, children have issues that have to be confronted in order to behave accordingly. The only difference is that they do on these issues on a different than adults do. Hence, a different approach is need.Unlike adults, children lack the proper vocabulary to explain their feelings making it harder for counsellors to understand their thoughts. Velsor (2004) in her denomination Revisiting Basic counselingling Skills with Children talks about the essential approaches that may be helpful when dealing with children during counselling Her article hopes to improve the study Adapting Basic Skills to Counsel Children by Erden and Lampe had done to create an appropriate approach in dealing with children.Velsor offers two new approaches into the world of counselling chi ldren. The first is to enhancement of microskills, a marches used for communication skills units by counsellors, when working with children. This allows any client, adult or child, to present their issues during sessions. For children, the use of microskills involves the counsellor to adapt to the childrens varying capabilities. Apart from supporting(a) verbal communication of children, this allows them to bring out their issues through the manner of playing.In this article, several examples are used to explain the different microskills used as well as the different manners children may use to act on their issues. Velasor explains her second approach by introducing and explaining the common stages and themes that occur during counsel with children. Acquintance with these stages enables the counsellor to properly understand how to go about the counselling period. List of References Velsor, P. V. (2004). Revisiting Basic Couselling Skills with Children. Journal of Counseling and Dev elopment, 82 ( 3), 313-318.